Holt U.R. Church
Introduction
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Holt U.R. Church
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 16 Aug 2021
The church was opened in about 1816 as an Independent chapel. Worshippers were thought to have met in the assembly room next to the old White Hart before this was built. Extended in 1846, it became a Congregational Church by 1859. Later in the 19th century the rather typical Georgian nonconformist chapel was replaced by another building in the shape of a more conventional mainstream church. It was designed by William Jervis Stent (1815-1887) in a Victorian gothic style with an apse, a tower capped with a spire, and built of Atworth stone by John Ponton of Warminster. When the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians merged in 1972 it took the name United Reformed Church. A benchmark can be seen on the church corner - see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.355279
Longitude
-2.201719